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Write Your Own Headlines — It’s Easy!
Do you write headlines for your articles? I always do, although I know many other freelancers who shy away from headlines. They know that editors are responsible for providing the headlines and they...
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How Editorial Calendars Can Help You Sell Your Work
Editorial Calendars — are you using them to help sell your writing? You should. They are great tools to help in targeting your article ideas. The calendars list specific topics that the publications...
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Writing and Getting Published After 50
So you’re 50 (or beyond) and you’re wondering how that will affect your ability to get your book or magazine article published. The answer? Depending on how you handle the situation, it should make no...
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Becoming a Business Writer
A long time ago, I used to be a business writer. After college, I began working for a business newspaper and although I came to dislike working for the paper, it was a great introduction to writing...
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Ethics and Writing — Are You on The Right Path?
Rather than spend time on the Internet over last weekend, I decided to reread passages from some books on my bookshelves. That’s where I came across a section called “Etiquette and Ethics” in Writing...
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Mr. Magazine And His List of “25 Notable New Magazines”
A site that I visit often is MrMagazine.com because I think it is the prime information source about magazines. Mr. Magazine is Dr. Samir Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the...
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Making Time to Write
Anonymous Quote: People always make time to do the things they really want to do. Many of us rarely have big chunks of time to get started writing, so often we don’t start at all. But there are so many...
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An Opportunity to Help Other Writers
Last week when I wrote a post about Making Time to Write, I included one of my favorite ways to get started writing: Making an appointment with myself and keeping that appointment. That post inspired...
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More Magazines that Pay $1.00 a Word
Back in 2008, when I first posted a piece about magazines that pay $1 a word, I had no idea that the post would be as well received as it has been. Nearly 3 years later however, it still holds the...
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Certain Farewells Can Be Harder than Others
Certain farewells can be harder than others. Now that it’s time to say farewell to this particular blog, I’m glad that I came across this Gilda Radner quote: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve...
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